Aurora unveiled at last ? :rolleyes:

While everybody is remembering the Valiant, and rightly so, let’s not forget that Short Bros. almost beat Vickers to the punch with the Sperrin. The two prototypes were used to carry out trials that would be of benefit to V-bomber design and operation. I remember seeing one of them (VX158) flying from Hatfield when fitted with De Havilland Gyron engines – but as I was only a snotty-nosed brat at the time I didn’t realise the significance of what I’d seen (ah, the joys of hindsight).

:p I think the question mark is a clue – it’s a Fokker C2A that Melvyn has been constructing in his garden shed……

……O.K., I’ll get me coat and go…….

….. Seventy years ago today
Frankie brought the compressor into play……..

:p no, that doesn’t scan right – if I work on it, I think there may be a decent lyric in there somewhere……..

🙂 L39 flew over WGC midday-ish today, heading NE, presumably either on way to Dux or on wide circuit from N.Weald.

🙂 Excellent – thank you, guys

Would that be the ‘Battle of Britain’ Class of trains then?:D 😀 😀

Brian

If you’ve got a spare £20k.- £25k. burning a hole in your wallet, the nameplate for the former Southern Region’s Battle of Britain class locomotive ‘601 Squadron’ comes up for auction next month……

……just thought you might like to know that ….o.k., I’ll get me anorak and go….

‘ However now for the bad news the cost of the work will be about 3 million quid‘

🙁 seems rather a lot – would you care to elucidate (I think that’s the correct word).